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Crème Brûlée (Mixed)

Buy / Stream: https://ffm.to/levantine-high-energy

Levantine serves up his most propulsive, hard-edged music on this new EP for Exploited Club.

On the title track ‘High Energy’, distorted kicks suck at a tense synth arpeggio while in the distance a dramatic melody plays amidst a church-like reverb. Acidic overtones rise in the arp before big snare hits drop in and the lead melody shifts up an octave dramatically. Techno-tinged hi-hats push things forward more before we strip back in stark style and vox synths arrive to increase the haunting feel further still. Little else is needed aside from clever arrangement and juicy electronic tom fills to keep this one rocking until the very least beat.

‘Power, Corruption & Lies’ takes its cues from muscle-pumping ‘80s Hi-NRG, with a pogoing synth b-line trading blows with tight claps and gated snares by turns. Spare but spacious percussive rhythm pervades to accentuate the double-time bass, leading us to a breakdown decked out with a plucked, trancey melody and filtering, sweeping pad sustains. The tension builds before everything gels together, with the haunting feel of the title track continued here. As always, Levantine’s sense of drama and atmosphere shines through effortlessly.

Artist: Levantine
Release: High Energy
Label: Exploited Club
LC: 96788
Cat: EXP133
Publishing: Exploited Ghetto Music Publishing/Sony ATV
Beatport Pre-order: 25.08.23
Release Date Streaming/Beatport: 01.09.23
Release Date Global Download: 15.09.23

High Energy

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Levantine - High Energy | Exploited Club

Strahlemann loosely translates to: sunnyboy. A Rave track made for the nonstop smiling dancer and the ones who enlighten our lives the most. You may lose control, but don't you worry bout a thing. File under: Strahler.

Strahlemann

Garden Of Eden Remix EP [WZW-005] by Forbidden Fruit

Garden Of Eden (Original Mix)  
Garden Of Eden (Thomass Jackson Remix) 
Garden Of Eden (Redray Remix) 
Garden Of Eden (Cosmic Force Remix) 
Garden Of Eden (John Noseda Hi NRJ Remix) 
Garden Of Eden (Roe Deers Remix) 
Garden Of Eden (Nico Morano 911 Remix) 
Garden Of Eden (Nico Morano Remix)

Forbidden Fruit presents 'Garden of Eden’ 👩‍🚀 The first single of his upcoming album is landing with a splendit selection of remixes. Get ready to embark upon a cosmic journey filled with electrifying sounds that will take you to another universe on the dancefloor. 👾

Remixes by John Noseda (Running Back, Moustache) Cosmic Force (Clone, Marguerita) Redray (Order Mothership, Rotterdam Electronix) Nico Morano (Selador, Days like Nights), Roe Deers (Omnidisc, Nein) and Thomass Jackson (Calypso, Multi Culti).

Mastering by @giulioabbattista @pitagorastudio
Artwork by @merelghyssaert @visuals_internationals
Label @wezienwel.wzw

Next week Forbidden Fruit will be playing live sets during his release tour at @crackbellmer Berlin 🇩🇪 3rd of August and @garbicz_festival @juicybar Poland 🇵🇱 5th of August. Join the trip 🚀

Have a nice weekend 🎊

Garden Of Eden (John Noseda Hi NRJ Remix)

Trota Pazza

Trota (Zaatar Remix)

Afterparty with Soichi (jazzy mix)

UK dance music antagonist Works Of Intent redefines big room techno on ‘Richer Sound’, an album with six all-new tracks alongside six cuts previously released on Laurent Garnier and Scan X's COD3 QR label.

Works Of Intent is a vital voice in the underground who champions the sounds and stories of South Asian creatives in his role as Project Manager and Visual Designer for DAYTIMERS. He has also written multiple essays on race, class and privilege in the industry while laying down expressive sets across four decks at key clubs like fabric, Panoramabar and Rex. His emotive, storytelling sounds have come on labels like Turbo, Rekids and Monkeytown, and outside that, he's a go-to mix engineer for some of the UK's most exciting prospects.

‘Richer Sound’ features six tracks previously released on the label’s Various Artist EPs and six brand new offerings that avoid tired big room tropes. Gone are the snare rolls, white noise risers and kick drops, instead Work's operates under the mantra of "big tunes for big hearts" where musicality makes the motive. The artist himself has taken care of the artwork, mixing and mastering and says of the album, “It’s melancholia turned up so loud you can’t ignore it. It’s a deafening barrage of emotions designed for super clubs. It’s unsubtle, it’s unabashed, it’s unrelenting, and it wears its heart on its sleeve. It’s unmistakably a work of intent.”

Opener 'You Should' is a thrilling breakbeat tour de force that nails emotional impact and dance floor weight with impeccable craft. The title track is a colossal mind melter with throwback references to the home cinema experience of yesteryear in its samples of tape rewinds, DVD disc trays and CD disc changers, all adding a constantly rising urgency, then 'V.H.S.' brings a brutalist UK edge to proceedings with tambourine-layered and echoed dub snares making it a real bass bin workout. The powerful 'Fully Focused' builds to deliver the loudest sound you'll ever hear as Works Of Intent makes his synths scream; then there is a moment to dream on 'The Colour Of It' with its ethereal uncertainty, low-slung rhythms and epic synth washes.

Cars and motorsport have been a recurring theme in previous Works Of Intent releases and appear again here in 'Left Unseen', which has the high octane, death-defying adrenaline of rally driving perfectly transposed into a big room techno experience. 'Winning Dulls The Pain' is another cacophony of rising and descending V10 engines underpinning an ever-urgent lead, and 'Old Ways, New Mistakes' bounces boisterously with stadium-sized kick drums and synthetic mourning that will break hearts across arenas. 'Add New Ones' brings the heft of dubstep minimalism to a slower 4x4 form, and 'Dreamt I Saw You' takes fawning imaginations to lucid heights with a synth and cymbal pairing designed to get you stargazing in the club. There is an unrelenting Berlin techno drive to 'Hard Year' that peaks in a wash of cymbals and warbled melancholia before 'You Should (Reprise)' reimagines the opening cut in a more patiently building form with even more emotional impact.

‘Richer Sound’ is just the sort of expertly-crafted, genre-busting work of emotional and physical potency you would expect from such a restless nonconformist as Works Of Intent.

https://linktr.ee/Cod3QR

https://soundcloud.com/worksofintent
https://soundcloud.com/cod3qr

Richer Sound

PREMIERE: Works Of Intent - Old Ways New Mistakes [COD 3 QR]

The Four Elements

Another Concept, After kollaps & 1ØØ1 -Collapse-(Mellon Place Records)

Shir Khan started Exploited in 2007. Exploited Rec now plays host to some wide-ranging and innovative electronic talent - including Adana Twins, Claptone, Budakid, Joyce Muniz, James Curd, Shir Khan (to name a few) - and its artists have been receiving numerous supportive spins from the likes of Solomun, Pete Tong, Soul Clap, Wolf&Lamb, Azari&III, Jesse Rose, Axel Boman and A-Trak.
This is serious dance music at it's most cutting edge with all the juice to really get you going. It's totally contemporary, innovative and has a chunky dirty feel. "Exploited" take you on an invigorating roller coaster ride back to your youth when you first listened to dance music with all the thrills and spills you so enjoyed about clubbing. It's heavy, exciting and special.
'"Exploited Records" is a seamless melting pot of varied styles that simply can't fail to please even the most discerning ears. Highlights here are plentyful. Not to be missed at any cost.' (Clash)
'Musical hybrids are truly the flavour of today, but few have managed to capture the atmosphere of an unpredictable microcosm of a night out on a recordlabel - until now. Shir Khan's label "Exploited" bottles the zeitgeist's giddy thrills with plenty of style and substance. This is dance music hybridism in all its most glorious forms, and Shir Khan is an expert at making square pegs fit round holes.' (DJ-Mag)
'"Exploited Records" boss Shir Khan has been gaining a lot of acclaim recently, and deservedly so - as he has shown us the high quality, diversity and forward-thinking nature of his label. Engaging, riveting and diverse.' (Data Transmission)